We love dogs. So we can't resist passing along word that later today All Things Considered plans to catch up on the story of Andy, a tan and white Pembroke Welsh Corgi who has been missing since New Year's Eve.
Andy and his human companion, Jordina Ghiggeri of Plymouth, Mass., were visiting friends in Westport, Conn., when he got scared by some fireworks. He took off for the woods.
Since then Ghiggeri has used the old-fashioned approach — some 4,000 posters plastered all over Westport, — and the wonders of technology and the World Wide Web in the effort to find Andy.
There's the , which has more than 4,000 "likes." There's the and . Strangers, the Globe says, helped raise $11,000 to buy a dozen night-vision cameras. A pet detective has been enlisted. The missing dog's story has made it and .
Andy's been sighted, but not yet reunited with Ghiggeri.
Here's hoping it all works out.
Craig Lemoult from WSHU in Fairfield, Conn., is filing the report for All Things Considered. to find an NPR station that broadcasts or streams the show.
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